Views of Dubois & Washington

“Philosophies of W.E.B. Dubois & B.T. Washington” The philosophies of W.E.B. Dubois and Washington are more different than alike. Washington and Dubois both “preach” about the uprising of the American Negro, what is the American Negro, --“an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder, (www.bartleby.com/114/1.html, 2). But Dubois …

…that they do not want them. The way for a people to gain respect is not by continually belittling and ridiculing themselves; that, on the contrary, Negroes must insist on issues that are bothering them persistently, in season and out of season’ (6-7). They fought for what they believed in and never gave up on the dream not to become one with the “white man,” but to become one with himself and his own environment.